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    Airframe Family: North American P-86/F-86 Sabre / FJ-2/FJ-3/FJ-4 Fury
    Latest Model:F-86F-30-NA Sabre
    Last Military Serial:658 FABo
    Construction Number:191-384
    Last Civil Registration:N8630
    Compressed ID:NA F-86F-30-NA sn 658 FABo cn 191-3...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-86F-30-NA by North American at Inglewood, California, USA.

    1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Venezolana with s/n 52-4689.
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    From By 1985 to By 1994

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Boliviana with s/n 658.

    By March 1994

    To Dixie Air Parts, San Antonio, TX.

    March 1994

    Recovered.
    Recovered from Bolivia by Dixie.

    4 August 1995

    Assigned civil registration: N8630 (F-86F, 524689)

    29 August 1995

    To unknown owner with c/r N8630.

    By October 1995

    Stored at Arlington, TX.

    1995

    To Texas Air Command Museum Inc, Fort Worth-Meacham Field, TX.

    To Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, TX.
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    Markings Applied: 658

    16 May 2010


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: At the Vintage Flying Museum - Fort Worth - Meacham FieldNorth American F-86F Sabre N8630 - wearing previous Bolivian AF markings

    23 February 2011

    Civil registration, N8630, cancelled.

    By 11 May 2023

    Restoration started.
    On 11 May 2023 Undergoing restoration at the National Air and Space Museum, Steven F Udvar - Hazy Center, Washington, VA.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Graeme Hewitt
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